PLEASE PLEASE ME
| The Beatles
PLEASE PLEASE ME
Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Parlophone rush-released the album on 22 March 1963 in the United Kingdom to capitalise on the success of the band's singles "Please Please Me" (number 1 on most charts, although only number 2 on Record Retailer, later the UK Singles Chart) and "Love Me Do" (number 17). The album topped Record Retailer's LP chart for 30 weeks, an unprecedented achievement for a pop album at that time.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
2009 - A raw, high-energy run-through of their early live set, the Beatles' debut is also the sound of rock'n'roll finding a suddenly large, new audience.
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BBC
2010 - But the grandest oak begins as the tiniest acorn, and Please Please Me is just that: perfectly formed for what it is, and ready to split when promise is realised.
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Consequence of Sound
2009 - much too clever to be dismissed as fluff. With a clean, bright new sound that makes each instrument sharp and distinct, the remaster makes all the more unusual elements of the songwriting transparent.
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NME
2016 - The Beatles were learning as they went, but the resulting, snapshot nature of their first foray into albums is exactly what makes it so great.
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All Music
There's a love of girl groups, vocal harmonies, sophisticated popcraft, schmaltz, R&B, and hard-driving rock & roll, which is enough to make Please Please Me impressive
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The Telegraph
This slightly rough and ready debut is as close as we can get to their early live set.
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Rolling Stone
1987 - Try Please Please Me for the Beatles’ unfettered joy at making music
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Sputnik Music
2011 - Please Please Me isn’t the best “early Beatles” ... record, but it’s perhaps the most likable, the most irresistible.
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Analog Planet
2012 - "Please Please Me" Still Jolts Almost Fifty Years Later!
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Alt Rock Chick
2016 - And though I don’t think Please Please Me is a great album in its own right, I appreciate it as the first chapter in a long novel.
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Neon Modern Times
One of the best debut albums of all time.
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Andrew Whickey
2009 - This is the Beatles album recorded before ‘Beatles album’ meant something, and as such is effectively the work of a different band from all the rest of them. ... I can’t help but wish that this band had made a few more albums, too…
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Roots Rock Review
2018 - this 1963 debut studio album is a gem in that it captures the band at the point of their transition from roots rock novices to the original artists who would soon change the face of music forever
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The Spectrum
2017 - It was monumental. It was the biggest thing to happen to rock ‘n’ roll since its invention a few years earlier. It was the beginning of the greatest band in the history of not just rock ‘n’ roll but popular music.
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Record Collector Magazine
All told, it adds up to a respectable debut long-player
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The Top tens
as with every Beatles' album, amazing to listen to
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Only Solitaire
The Beatles at their lightest - heck, the album seems to be floating five inches above ground all the time.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
there are some well-known rockers ... five of which hit the Top Ten at once, but only after the follow-up LP hit like a tidal wave in the U.S.
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Ultimate Guitar
2008 - a beautifully constructed album
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Time Out
2013 - They sound deceptively simple, but we suspect this peculiar-sounding experiment may prove how fiendishly difficult Beatles songs can be to cover.
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